Right now, AI is recommending someone else.
Citabld is an AI search (AEO) company. We help you build the content that gets your company named and cited in AI answers. Your buyers ask ChatGPT one question. The tool quietly asks eight, pulls answers from whoever wrote them best, and hands back a shortlist. You're either on it or you don't exist.
Brands being left out of AI answers their competitors show up in.
Buyers are trading search results for AI answers. An AI answer names a few companies and leaves out everyone else, so the shortlist is set before a buyer ever visits a website. If the AI can't pull a clear answer from your content, it names a competitor instead, and you never hear about the lost deal.
When a buyer asks ChatGPT or Google AI for a recommendation, the tool breaks that one question into several smaller questions behind the scenes, pulls the best answer for each, and reads back a short list. Citabld maps all those smaller questions for your category and writes the content the tools actually quote, so your company shows up on the list.
The question you see is not the question being answered. Google's AI Mode runs several related searches per question, and tests show the searches ChatGPT runs share only about 13% of their words with what you typed. Pages that answer those smaller behind-the-scenes questions are 161% more likely to get quoted. Your buyers' real questions are eight, not one. The map is how we catch all of them.
A keyword list carries one thing: the phrase and how many people search it. A Query Map carries six things per row: the subquery, the engine, the person, the stage, how we know it, and a coverage score. Six fields per row is what turns a list into something you can plan, prioritize, and check later.
- 01Map. Learn your category the way the AI sees it: the words it uses, the brands it keeps naming, the sources it trusts.
- 02Library. Work out all the smaller questions the AI asks behind the scenes across nine tools and your buyer types.
- 03Produce. Write the content the engines actually quote, with the answer first.
- 04Measure. Track how often the AI names you, and re-measure as coverage fills in.